Matthew 19:4-6
Matthew 19:4-6 NIV [4] “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ [5] and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? [6] So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” In my short 40++ years of life, I have seen many couples that marry... But then file for divorce within 1, 2 and 13 years of marriage... When people marry without the intent to 'cleave'(proskollao) which implies an active glue like adherence 'welded', they are entering a contract, not a covenant. The problem I see (divorce or separation) is the inevitable result of a structure built on a foundation that was never actually 'joined by God'. When you see couples who prioritize their own agendas over the "cleaving" process, you are identifying that the operative mechanism of the covenant is missin...
